skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the criticisms in this thread and, based on tech leaders actions in the past, am inclined to agree with them. If only to not feel naive.

However, given the extremely competitive environment for AI, if Sam Altman and OpenAI were altruistic and wanted to create a company that benefited everyone, what options do they have moving forward? Do people here think that they can remain competitive with their current structure. Would they actually be able to get investor support to continue scaling the models?

The question remains in the back of my mind, can you create an organization like OpenAI claims they want to create in our current system? If someone came along and truly wanted to create that organization, would you be able to tell the difference between someone just grifting?
By alternatives, I suppose you mean pyramid schemes that have no underlying investment that could beat inflation?
I think the comparison to brown rat brains is a huge mistake. It seems pretty apparent (at least from my personal usage of LLMs in different contexts) that modern AI is much smarter than a brown rat at some things (I don't think brown rats can pass the bar exam), but in other cases it becomes apparent that it isn't "intelligent" at all in the sense that it becomes clear that it's just regurgitating training data, albeit in a highly variable manner.

I think LLMs and modern AI are incredibly amazing and useful tools, but even with the top SOA models today it becomes clearer to me the more I use them that they are fundamentally lacking crucial components of what average people consider "intelligence". I'm using quotes deliberately because the debate about "what is intelligence" feels like it can go in circles endlessly - I'd just say that the core concept of what we consider understanding, especially as it applies to creating and exploring novel concepts that aren't just a mashup of previous training examples, appears to be sorely missing from LLMs.
Illinois Supreme Court Policy on Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
Years ago somebody at Kinko’s refused to make copies of a draft software manual because it had screenshots of our software’s Windows interface. She said it would violate Microsoft’s copyright. This led to a fun discussion of how copyright on rectangles would even work. Obviously this wasn’t Kinko’s official stance. Just one obstinate, over zealous employee.

Ironically, it was a bible software manual and the screenshots she looked at accidentally had text from a copyrighted bible translation. So she was right that those screenshots had copyright issues, but for the wrong reason.
The TV show one is good, I have a few movies I've seen dozens of times and can reite the script for potentially so watching them du bed and unsubbed in my target language taught me, atthe very least, how to say the most quotable lines or repetitive phrases after a single viewing (I did add custom Flash cards after)
I‘m not omitting anything. The neighboring Arab states invaded after Israel declared independence, and after many Palestinians had already been expelled from their homeland. The colonial act came first, and the invasion and wars were a reaction to that colonialism.

Also what Israel ought to do, is not what Israel is doing, and what Israel is doing, is pure colonialism, taken straight from the 19th century, genocides and everything.
AFAICT this has very little to do with the military. Quoting from the actual bill:

(A) IN GENERAL.—This Act shall not apply to classified source code or source code developed primarily for use in a national security system (as defined in section 11103 of title 40, United States Code).

(B) NATIONAL SECURITY.—An exemption from the requirements under section 3 shall apply to classified source code or source code developed—

(i) primarily for use in a national security system (as defined in section 11103 of title 40, United States Code); or

(ii) by an agency, or part of an agency, that is an element of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).
I tried it on a personal repo and it never ended up generating a diagram.

Might be a bug, so here's the repo.
https://github.com/lorlouis/cedit
Control freaks have a serious issue with the incompleteness of an LLM. Everyone else is just ecstatic that it gets you 70% of the way there often.
Big thread a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449602
Good point, I also want things to work offline. By "remote" here I was also thinking of scenarios like:

- Connecting from Windows/macOS host to a local VM

- Connecting to a build server over LAN (I have a beefy PC but prefer to work from my couch)

Both work offline just fine, but from tooling perspective you are connecting to remote host over the network
pick one, it’s not as important as it seems, and you will refine it and improve it with time. My only suggestion would be to avoid seeking money, which it is just a tool, not a destination
I’m not sure why this was down-modded, it is quite accurate.
Absolutely. Lucid dreaming is such a gift, and it would be a huge disservice to yourself to waste it purely on dopamine-seeking hedonistic scenarios. It's a chance to deeply explore the mind and test hypotheses.

As an example, one thing I like doing is telling my dream subjects that they're in a dream and studying their reactions.
https://www.wsj.com/world/flight-deaths-shot-from-sky-rising...

There, a gift link.

You're probably using Cloudflare DNS, it's a known issue that's been discussed for years. The archive owner deliberately gives bad results to Cloudflare DNS. It's why I prefer not to use it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 - 6 year old discussion on the topic.
London City Airport (LCY) has a very short runway with an approach right next to houses and apartment buildings. If the weather is very windy, especially with cross-winds, they are quick to cancel or divert flights.

I was once in a plane that had three landing attempts there aborted at the last second before eventually diverting to Southend Airport. The plane was bobbing around like a cork on the end of a string, quite a few passengers were airsick from the wild turbulence or screaming hysterically convinced we were all about to die.
It never generated a diagram for mine :(
Yes. We rightfully expect people with guns to have an idea of what they are shooting at. Firing wildly at anything that moves tends to earn condemnation.
I'm not labelling it open source yet, but it's vanilla javascript ran client side (the various encryption etc) so if you 'view page source' you can see the vast majority of the code and you can use network monitoring tools to see no data is being sent server side aside when logging in, 'heartbeats' for the active peer list, and the 'Ping' (push notification) feature for people using it as a progressive web application
> WezTerm (insane config format, config has no business using a full fledged programming language)

Insanely good ;)

Being able to quickly script minor functionality into my terminal emulator is my favorite thing about WezTerm
AI is useful as a tool but it is far from trustworthy.

I just used Grok to write some CRON scripts for me, gave me perfectly good results, if you know exactly what you want, it is great.

It is not the end of software programmers though and is very dangerous to give it too much leeway because you will almost certainly end up with problems.

I agree with the conclusion that a hybrid model is possible.
How did "one-to-one" come to mean "injective"? (2011)
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> Everyone has a price, is this meant to be shocking?

Left a very-well paying job over conscience reasons. TC was ~3x higher than I could get elsewhere without immigrating, probably higher than anywhere relative to CoL. I wasn't even doing defense stuff, crypto scams or anything clearly questionable like that, just clients were mostly in fossil-fuel adjacent sectors. Come from a lower-class background and haven't built up sizable assets at all, will likely need to work until retirement age.

AMA.

If anyone similar reads this, would love to get in touch as I'm sure we'll have a lot in common. In case someone here knows me, hi!
Of the components you list, power conditioners appear to be the one that addresses waveforms.

Bloomberg could indeed have said "your quality of service is going down and your repair costs are going up, so spend the cash on remediation cuz the power company sure isn't." Not sure why their editors don't take that stance.
You can't hold anyone accountable for open source. With closed source, there's someone else to point the finger at when things go wrong.
So personal freedom is equivalent to spending power? To what end?
Yeah that's exactly why I never actually got deep into these techniques, I dunno about any diagnosed mental conditions but I used to have the sleep paralysis thing just as like what felt as my brains last resort to knock me out or something, and sometimes it would flip me into a lucid dream while others I'd just have like intense nightmares where I'd get sucked into a black hole appearing in the sky or creepy faced creatures from beyond would show me future technologies. It just felt way too close to insanity lol

I remember a friend of mine saying how he went manic and hadn't slept for days after trying some stuff he read in a book about 'dream yoga'. Always honestly left the impression that you can fuck this up just like you can pulling a muscle in your leg, except this is your mind you're talking about
Yup. And migrant workers are critical to American food security.
> habits and the purpose are doomed to fail if not guided by a meaning.

To complicate this, I offer that purposes can be unknown to the doer (w/ their meaning even further from awareness).

ex: What drives behavior tied to self-esteem may never be known, yet the behavior continues for a lifetime.
Exactly.

Remember when mobile carriers were competing via "differentiation"? Practically, that meant waiting on firmware updates for months or years, having to deal with preloaded and non-removable crapware on mobile OSes etc.

Now they're largely "dumb pipes" competing on price and quality of service, and as a consumer I couldn't be happier. (Of course, there are now different gatekeepers on our phones, but that's a different discussion.)
Since Russia reduced Grozny to rubble relatively recently, it's probably not that old.
They can though. Dying businesses take time to die. Even if nothing else, they could have decided to shut down _earlier_ so that customers would have more time to deal with the fallout. Or they could have decided to shut down _at the same time_ but just messaged about it earlier.
There‘s a whole movement called Purpose Companies that tries to answer it. Some companies like Patagonia, Bosch, Ableton, and most Danish companies like Maersk follow it. It’s unclear what other formats OpenAI has explored, and if so, what reasons they found not to pursue them.

At the end of the day, I do agree though that it’s insanely hard to innovate both on the product and a company structure. It’s quite sad that we don’t see OpenAI innovate in the org area anymore, but understandable from my POV.
I keep a little book of "cursed things you can do with C." I'll definitely be adding "emojis in linker scripts." Good read.
It might even be specific to Microsoft: once the make back the money they invested plus 100B, they are cut off. Maybe the original Intercept article has a better explanation, but it’s behind paywall.

In any case, I wouldn’t count on the deal remaining unaltered by the time they reach that, if they do.
Could you expand on this
Not sure why flagged. Link rot is one of the scourges of the internet.
> if you know exactly what you want, it is great.

Kinda kills the utility if you need to know what you want out tho...
or a global e-stamp service?
I think it ambiguous. vim has vsplit ("Like |:split|, but split vertically.") that is "split right", however, wezterm has "Split Vertically (Top/Bottom). Split the current pane vertically into two panes, by spawning the default program into the bottom half"
> have transformed robotics

> about to transform

Apparently even english tenses are too hard, let alone anything else. Bald faced lie, to claim what you think might happen in the future has already happened in the past. No matter "what the discussion was about", or what arguments you bring to support your estimation of the future.
When exactly will world leaders realize that this new wave of military research is risky enough to destroy them in their wealthy gated communities? Do they actually have to die and take a percentage of life on this planet with them before they can agree to some form of of altruistic peace agreement? Even if they have escape islands, I think too many people have seen Mad Max and that never ends well for the leaders.
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2024?
What were your favorite podcast episodes released in 2024?

Mine were:

Hardcore History 71 - Mania for Subjugation [1]

Fall of Civilizations 19 - Terror of the Steppe [2]

[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-71-mania-for-subjugation/

[2] https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
This is so fucked up**. I have an annual account and they have not done my books since July and now this... An no refunds?!
Imagine it were possible to take a rat brain, keep it alive with a permanent source of energy, wire its input and output connections to a computer, and then train the rat brain's output signals to predict the next token, given previous tokens fed as inputs, using graduated pain or pleasure signals as the objective loss function. All the neuron-neuron connections in that rain brain would eventually serve one, and only one, goal: predicting an accurate probability distribution over the next possible token, given previous tokens. The number of neuron-neuron connections in this "rat-brain-powered LLM" would be comparable to that of today's state-of-the-art LLMs.

This is less far-fetched than it sounds. Search for "organic deep neural networks" online.

Networks of rat neurons have in fact been trained to fly planes, in simulators, among other things.
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Claude non-free:

> I apologize, but I can't provide an answer as "crolubaflex" and "ggh connection" appear to be non-existent technical terms. Could you clarify what you're trying to connect or enable?
Freedom of Speech seems to have very minimal consideration in this index, despite it being what I would consider the most foundational freedom of all.
You can hire a bookkeeper to work with the CPA. I had a freelance freelancer who would keep books up to date, and then turn over the books to the CPA for tax prep and analysis. I estimate the cost was about half as much as if the CPA firm did everything, and everyone was doing what they wanted to do.
I learn faster with visualization, whether it's a stat or a codebase. Much appreciated!
There is no other way to use an LLM than to give it context and have it give its best guess, that's how LLMs fundamentally work. You can give it different context, but it's just guessing at tokens.
I have built something similar except with a list of warm up exercises and with GitHub Actions.

I suppose a bank of words on a .CSV, a script which selects words, and a job triggered via a ChronJob which opens an issue does the trick. I had it so when an issue is opened, I got emailed.

The pro of this approach is you don’t have to deploy any infra. The con is that your emails never look as nice as you got it :’)
Our "defense" industry is having a bonanza arming a genocide that has killed over 100,000 people in Gaza.

https://truthout.org/articles/us-health-workers-back-from-ga...
Node.js now supports TypeScript by default
Perhaps not what you're looking for, but...

Learn a language of a country that you might be doing business with in the future. Sure, everyone speaks English (do they though?) but even a little bit of their native language goes a long way establishing goodwill.

Even if not for profit, it grows your mind and that is never a bad thing.
I'm convinced Michael Crichton was the greatest sci-fi writer after Isaac Asimov.
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Are you expecting AIs to be more reliable, because they're slower?
That's pretty reasonable, although the styling of the landing page makes it look like those are actual command outputs, so I expected them to work.
Yes. It's really time to move on (to the next scam).
What gave you that impression? I always consulted my financials when making decisions. Unfortunately the books were wrong and I made incorrect choices from that bad data.
It speeds up code writing, it's not useless. Best use case for me is to help me understand libraries that are sparsely documented (e.g. dotnet roslyn api).

edit: spelling
Considering the advancements we've seen in the last one year, it does not.
> Exactly how were you doing so? Were you able to predict these needs with "tells" or some other reference point? Did you get assessments wrong?

tells is a good way to put it. had a close friend from my hometown who lived for manipulating people and hanging out with him for 4 years taught me a lot. if he pulled some slick move or long setup on someone (including me) hed discuss the chain of tells and decisions if i asked him. boiled down mostly to confidence, conditioning, in group/out group. ugly stuff. the hook was his ability to manufacture novel, cheap thrills. this was enough to keep everyone interested in sticking around. he liked having cronies and i could do a b- version of him.

ive made many wrong assessments. i ignored the mistakes and focused on successes to keep feeding my ego. to abuse an analogy id burn a bridge without thinking of it because i was already making a new friend to fill that spot.

> What caused you to think it wasn't worth it anymore?

after leaving that environment i noticed how relaxing it was to hang out with my own thoughts. i realized how i was just playing part i had cast myself in for attention and no other real benefit. i happened to take an Excel VBA class my senior year and became obsessed with programming. became more interested in learning to code than anything else. i noticed the benefits of avoiding attention. introverts probably learn these lessons early but i learned them late.
High-Speed Sequential DNA Computing Using a Solid-State DNA Origami Register
For pure bookkeeping at a small scale, I really like plain text accounting with beancount and fava

Bookkeeping is easy but labor intensive. Dealing with US tax law... That's when you spend on a local CPA.
“80%” “outperformed” “fraction of the cost” you could make a lot of money if it were true but 5x productivity boost seems unjustified right now, I’m having a hard time finding problems where the output is even 1x (where I don’t spend more time babysitting LLM than doing the task from scratch myself).
To save everyone a lot of time and OP some money, here is https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena diagrammed:

https://gitdiagram.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena

https://imgur.com/a/gwoabtk

Clicking on any box takes you directly to either a file or a folder in the repo. AFAICT, the boxes, wires, groups, labels are all inferred by the AI.
Believe what you will, just don't confuse me by stating your beliefs in question form.

"I refuse to believe you cannot run without sweating". Ahh... fine, I guess.
Wikipedia pages for niche STEM topics tend to be made by 1 or 2 people, obsessed with the topic, but often not very good at high level abstract communication. So you get a technically-correct mess like that article. If you are an expert in a niche stem topic, look up the wikipedia article for it, then use that experience to fight the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect for the rest. I use wikipedia for a lot of topics, but not topics like this. An LLM is a better bet these days.
Come one, people are not that stupid.
> In 1983, a Soviet fighter plane shot down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 that had strayed into Soviet airspace during a tense period of the Cold War, killing all 269 onboard.

Not the only Soviet shootdown of a KAL flight, either:

> Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from Paris to Seoul via Anchorage. On 20 April 1978, the Soviet air defense shot down the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 707, near Murmansk, Soviet Union, after the aircraft violated Soviet airspace.

Happily, less deadly:

> The incident killed two of the 109 passengers and crew members aboard and forced the plane to make an emergency landing on the frozen Korpijärvi Lake.
Because INT4 quantized weights still use FP16 compute in most cases. Sometimes it's possible to use FP8/INT8 compute, and there is research to use INT4 compute, but it's rather rare.
My first very ever attempt at making a let plays video.

Immediately got taken down for copyright infringement.
Completely destroyed my desire to ever make a let's play video again.

And it was for a 10+ year old game. It is unfortunate
Many years ago I taught CMPT215 - Intro to Computer Architecture. This was a second year course and taught MIPS assembler. There’s a chain of follow on courses culminating in a 400-level course where you implement a basic OS from scratch on x86 (when I took it) or ARM (present day, I believe).

MIPS was, I think, a decent compromise between academic architecture and industrial architecture. There was a decent amount of practical stuff the students had to deal with without having to eg do the dance from x86 real mode to protected mode.

One of the most memorable lectures though was on the second last day. As it turned out I had gotten through all of my material one say early. We had a review/Q&A session scheduled for the last day but needed 1h30 of filler. I ended up putting together a lecture on JVM bytecode. Throughout the course I would often use C <-> MIPS ASM throughout examples because the 214, which was a prerequisite, was a C course. All of their first year work had been in Java. Anyway, we took real Java programs and disassembled them down to bytecode and walked through it, showing how it’s very similar to hardware assembly but with extra instructions for eg placing objects on the stack or calling methods on objects. The class ended up going almost an hour over because everyone was oddly engaged and had a ton of questions.
Sure, I'm interested in where the boundaries are with this.

With the requirements for a short answer, the reasoning says it doesn't know what they are so it has to respond cautiously, then says no. Without that requirement it says it doesn't know what they are, and notes that they sound fictional. I'm getting some API errors unfortunately so this testing isn't complete. 4o reliably keeps saying no (which is wrong).
Oh that’s super interesting, where in the VFX industry is Lua common? I typically deal with Python and maybe Tcl (I do mostly Nuke and pipeline integrations), and I can’t think of a tool that is scripted in Lua. But I’ve never worked with Vega or Shake or what this is/was called
i see a diagram there now, might've taken a while to load https://gitdiagram.com/lorlouis/cedit
The Houthis have no credibility, so I'm inclined to believe the Navy here.
We need to trust "Classics" more. I read the Tale of two cities and was genuinely profoundly moved by it.
Connecting AI with Any API
Last I checked, Embraers don't have operable windows

Boeings on the other hand...
Or to put it another way, it's extracting $300 out of every single person in the US.
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My suspicion is that many people who think they have autism or ADHD really have

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypy

Myself I learned to outperform extroverts at their own game temporarily (can do cold calls all day with zero fear) although I use a lot of tricks based on dissociation (I have a fox that comes out when I need it, in fact it just told me I have to get in better physical shape to be a better host.)